Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir,
skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir, hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir, bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir, skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
Quick one, head-sharpener, crusher of skulls, Gautr of corpses, war-shining one and flesh-Mímir, wound-strip, fickle one, Brimir, clinch-failer, polished one, heaper, notched one, gate-flame.
[8] skarðr: skarði A, ‑skarði ok B
[8] skarðr (m.) ‘notched one’: This substantivised adj. is not attested elsewhere in Old Norse poetry as a heiti for ‘sword’, but it is found in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: skarðr). See neðanskarðr ‘end-notched one’ (st. 1/6), skerðir ‘diminisher’ (st. 8/6) and skerðingr ‘notcher’ (st. 7/2). The A, B variant skarði (so also the LaufE mss) is the name of the sword of one of the Baglar chieftains, Andres Símonarson, in Hák (Flat 1860-8, III, 27).